UNICEF: Bringing stability to displaced families in Pakistan

UNICEF: Bringing stability to displaced families in Pakistan Video Clips. Duration : 1.62 Mins.

JALALA CAMP, Pakistan, 22 May 2009 Since the end of April, a new army offensive against militants in north-west Pakistan has caused the displacement of more than 1.5 million people. Theyve joined the 555000 people already displaced since October of last year and still unable to go home. Its the largest population displacement Pakistan has seen since the country was created in 1947. To address this emergencys impact on children and women, UNICEF and its partners are working as part of a coordinated UN response to ensure that displaced children have access to water and sanitation, immunization and education, as well as protection from abuse or exploitation. Over 180 schools in the Swat Valley have been destroyed in the past month. To restore education to displaced childrens lives, UNICEF is assisting camp primary schools and providing school supplies for thousands of boys and girls. Child-friendly spaces set up in the new camps also offer safe environments where children can play and receive psychosocial support. Child-protection teams monitor unaccompanied and orphaned children, and make sure that households headed by women have access to services and supplies. UNICEF is also providing safe water, latrines and hygiene kits for children and families displaced by the fighting in north-west Pakistan. To read the full story, visit: www.unicef.org

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UNICEF's mobile health units and temporary learning centers in Pakistan

UNICEF's mobile health units and temporary learning centers in Pakistan Video Clips. Duration : 3.42 Mins.

2 September 2010 UNICEF provides flood victims with mobile health units and temporary learning centres After a month of catastrophic flooding, relief efforts in southern sindh are being stretched by the country's unprecedented ongoing disaster. Sindh is the worst-affected province, with 19 of its 23 districts affected. As the waters head south wards, hundreds and thousands of hungry and desperate families have evacuated the villages around the district of Thatta and have come to the city for shelter as flood waters swell the raging Indus River to 40 times its usual volume. The resting place for the dead has now turned into a source of refuge for the living. For the past one week, displaced victims from the surrounding Daro, Bela, Thatta and Sujawal have brought life to the ruins of the historic graveyard of Makli, amongst the tombs and shrines of Muslim saints. Devastated people were seen sitting out in the open with their children and cattle. The orders to evacuate Thatta threw into chaos plans by thousands of people already on the move, fleeing flooded villages and hoping that the district's biggest city could provide relief and shelter. The numbers increase every day. But some families choose to keep close to their homes, and have managed to stay one step ahead of the rising waters. Iqbal's village lies submerged in the water, with his 7 children, he has set up camp overlooking what is left of his home, and swims out to fetch whatever food and supplies he can recover ...

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